The Blue Fairy Book, The Brave Little Tailor, sentence 7
“Now heaven shall bless this jam for my use,” cried the little tailor, “and it shall sustain and strengthen me.”
Who acts: heaven, little tailor, my · What happens: bless, cry, sustain, strengthen, use · To what, where: jam, little tailor · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brave Little Tailor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (heaven, little tailor, my), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 bless | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 heaven | advmod |
| 3 | heaven | heaven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bless | nsubj |
| 4 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 bless | aux |
| 5 | bless | bless | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 cried | ccomp |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 jam | det |
| 7 | jam | jam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bless | obj |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 use | case |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 use | nmod:poss |
| 10 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bless | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 bless | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 bless | punct |
| 13 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 tailor | det |
| 15 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 tailor | amod |
| 16 | tailor | tailor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 cried | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 sustain | punct |
| 18 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 sustain | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 sustain | cc |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 sustain | nsubj |
| 21 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 sustain | aux |
| 22 | sustain | sustain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 cried | conj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 strengthen | cc |
| 24 | strengthen | strengthen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 sustain | conj |
| 25 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 strengthen | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 sustain | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 sustain | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bless in a quote | shall | heaven | this jam | for my use | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent jam=Theme for use=Attribute | |||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | the little tailor | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | sustain in a quote | shall | heaven | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | strengthen in a quote | infinitive | heaven not said here | the little tailor = tailor | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent i=Patient | ||||
| 5 | use in a quote | my | nom use «act transitive»: poss=agent |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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